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• Jay Elroy Broek, Sioux County, Iowa († 2020)
• Johannes M.(jan) Tuijp, Edam / Volendam († 2000)
• Albertus Johannes Borger, Bruchterveld († 2015)
• Albertus Kap, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1986)
• Boudina Suzanna Brattinga, Joure († 2022)
• Orsel, Vledderveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1942)
• Hendrik Van Der Veer, Drogeham, Friesland, Nederland († 1981)
• Joseph Wilhelmus Steenbeek, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Elisabeth van Tiggelen, Steenbergen († 2002)
• Jannig de boer, Edam-Volendam († 2023)

• Anna Maria Lips (57), Princenhage, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Jardine (73)
• Angelina Johanna van Beek (97), Baarle-Nassau (Baarle-Nassau) (Noord-Brabant)
• Anna Maria Sibilla van den Berg (64), Meerlo
• Antonetta de Barge (68), Middelburg
• Alphonsus Antonius Van Raemdonck (88), Zomergem
• Adrianus van Viersen (87), Haarlem
• Aleidus Blaauw (0), Assen
• Antje Begeman (49), Musselkanaal
• Aaltje Fokkes Van der Meer (80)

• 1940 » Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1940 » Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1941 » Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 » Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior († 2006)
• 1942 » John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1942 » Michael Jackson, English journalist and author († 2007)
• 1942 » Michael York, English actor
• 1943 » Mike Curtis, American football player and coach († 2020)
• 1944 » Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 » Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs († 2002)

• 1934 » Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1938 » William Stern, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1940 » Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Julio González, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
• 1943 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Karl Groos, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1949 » Elisheva Bikhovski, Israeli-Russian poet (b. 1888)
• 1952 » Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
11. Adrianus
12. Robert
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
• February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
• June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
• October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
• November 19 » Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.

The temperature on March 27, 1942 was between -0.3 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.